Image Sources: Al Bawaba / Bikya Masr / The Telegraph / Austin Post
BY TRACY PFEIFFER
ANCHOR CHRISTINA HARTMAN
You're watching multisource headline news analysis from Newsy.
This is Newsy Now and here are the headlines you need to know.
In world news-- Nearly 20 bombs exploded across Iraq early Monday, killing at least 60 people.
France 24 calls the coordinated attack -- the country’s worst violence in four months.
“Security officials say the explosions happened almost simultaneously, with a series of attacks in the southern cities of Kut and Najaf.
The surge of attacks raises major questions over Iraq’s security forces. 47,000 U.S. soldiers are meant to withdraw under the terms of a bilateral security pact by the end of the year.
The months of June and July have seen the highest number of deaths this year.”
Also in world news-- Habib El-Adly, the former head of Egyptian security forces, and six of his police commanders went on trial in a crowded courtroom.
He’s charged with ordering the deaths of some 850 protesters during the 18-day uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak.
The ex-president’s trial has been merged with the one for El-Adly and his aides, but Al Jazeera reports -- lawyers for the victims’ families want more.
SAMEH ASHROUR, LAWYER: “We had a key demand, which is to join the case of those accused of being directly responsible of this crime with this case so that everything adds up, meaning today ex-minister Habib El-Adly and his aides are on trial, but there are also lower-ranking officers who have been accused, therefore the two cases should be merged together.”
In tech news-- Google is buying Motorola Mobility to the tune of $12 billion.
It’s the first time the company behind the Android OS will really get its hands into the mobile business.
Analysts say the move will shore up Google’s patent portfolio -- but is it the right move? Here’s CNBC.
“Android thus far has been agnostic, meaning it has been a platform-agnostic system the same way that Microsoft is, Windows--and Apple is not. So the question is, what’s going to happen to other brands -- HTC, for example, Samsung -- others that have been using this platform--will they still want to when they will effectively be competing against Google?”
In U.S. news-- Texas Governor Rick Perry threw his cowboy hat into the GOP presidential race Saturday.
He placed sixth in Iowa’s Ames Straw Poll -- without officially participating.
But will his current job title -- once shared by former president George W. Bush -- hurt him in the long run?
Here’s Matthew Dowd for ABC.
MATTHEW DOWD, ABC: “Whoever the nominee is, you’re going to hear the White House and the Democratic Party say that that person is proposing that we go back to the policies that got the country in this economic morass. That is going to be the line of attack, looking at the ‘failed Bush policies,’ in the White House parlance. And whoever the nominee is, whether it’s Bachmann, or Romney, or Perry, that’s what they’re going to hang around their neck.”
And Casey Anthony’s lawyer is fighting a judge’s ruling -- that she must spend a year in Orlando on probation related to check fraud charges.
Anthony has been in hiding since being acquitted of the murder of her daughter.
HLN’s Nancy Grace thinks it’ll be a tough time for the “tot mom.”
NANCY GRACE, HLN: “She’ll have to get a job, she’ll be screened for drugs, alcohol, she’ll have to have a place of residence, which we learned is going to be kept a secret, and she’s going to have to have regular contact with a probation officer. Now I already see a problem -- tot mom, Casey Anthony -- a job? Come on, she lied about a job for five straight years as she munched on potato chips on her parents’ sofa.”
Stay with Newsy Now for all your news throughout the day -- hi-lighting your top headlines, making you smarter--faster.
'Like' Newsy on Facebook for updates in your news feed.
Get more multisource video news analysis from Newsy.
Transcript by Newsy
